1
: a person whose occupation is planning and building mills or setting up their machinery
2
: a person who maintains and cares for mechanical equipment (as of a mill or factory)
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Control-room operators and millwrights will need new training on hydrogen safety and new sensor suites; chemists must monitor oxygen-extraction with H₂ instead of carbon; and automation teams must coordinate the reformers, recycle loops, and smelters.
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Srishti Gupta, Interesting Engineering, 21 Sep. 2025
Another $635 million pension bailout was approved on Oct. 17 for the Detroit Carpenters Fund, which covers, more than 22,500 metro Detroit carpenters and millwright, so avert insolvency.
—Susan Tompor, Detroit Free Press, 31 Oct. 2024
Conservative pastors who support Trump have begun to preach at Latino-majority evangelical churches, according to Guillermo Lopez Jr., a former millwright at Bethlehem Steel who is now a civic leader.
—Farah Stockman, The Mercury News, 24 Oct. 2024
Carpenters, ironworkers, laborers, divers, operators, pile drivers, millwrights — the list goes on.
—Kelvin Jordan, Baltimore Sun, 8 Apr. 2024
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Srishti Gupta, Interesting Engineering, 21 Sep. 2025
Another $635 million pension bailout was approved on Oct. 17 for the Detroit Carpenters Fund, which covers, more than 22,500 metro Detroit carpenters and millwright, so avert insolvency.
—Susan Tompor, Detroit Free Press, 31 Oct. 2024
Conservative pastors who support Trump have begun to preach at Latino-majority evangelical churches, according to Guillermo Lopez Jr., a former millwright at Bethlehem Steel who is now a civic leader.
—Farah Stockman, The Mercury News, 24 Oct. 2024
Carpenters, ironworkers, laborers, divers, operators, pile drivers, millwrights — the list goes on.
—Kelvin Jordan, Baltimore Sun, 8 Apr. 2024
See All Example Sentences for millwright
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“Millwright.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/millwright. Accessed 10 Oct. 2025.
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millwright
noun
mill·wright
ˈmil-ˌrīt 
: one who builds mills or sets up their machinery
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